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People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917

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Julian Assange
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
Emma Goldman
Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
Chelsea Manning
American activist and whistleblower (born 1987)
Alexander Berkman
Russian-American anarchist and writer (1870–1936)
Eugene V. Debs
American labor and political leader (1855–1926)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American couple executed for spying for the Soviet Union
Aldrich Ames
CIA analyst and Soviet spy (1941–2026)
Robert Hanssen
FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services (1944–2023)
Ricardo Flores Magón
Mexican anarchist and social reform activist (1874–1922)
Jonathan Pollard
U.S. civilian intelligence analyst turned Israeli spy
William Dudley Haywood
labor organizer (1869-1928)
Earl Browder
American politician (1891–1973)
Ralph Chaplin
American writer, artist and labor activist
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U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified information to the media
Marie Equi
American doctor (1872-1952)
John Anthony Walker
Soviet spy (1937–2014)
Mollie Steimer
Russian anarchist (1897-1980)
Ana Montes
American intelligence analyst
Anastasy Vonsyatsky
Russian anti-Bolshevik émigré to USA (1898-1965)
Jack Teixeira
American soldier and leaker of the 2023 Pentagon document leaks
John Kiriakou
John Chris Kiriakou is an American former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, whistleblower, journalist, and author.
Harry Gold
American chemist (1910–1972)
David Greenglass
Atomic spy for the Soviet Union (1922–2014)
Larry Wu-tai Chin
Chinese spy (1922-1986)
Karl Koecher
Czechoslovak spy
Morton Sobell
American spy for the Soviet Union (1917-2018)
Librado Rivera
Mexican anarchist
Kate Richards O'Hare
American activist (1876-1948)
Harold James Nicholson
American spy
George Trofimoff
American spy
Jeffrey Alexander Sterling
American CIA officer
Robert Soblen
Soviet spy on the United States and Stalinist agent provocateur
Stewart Nozette
American scientist imprisoned for attempted espionage
Christopher John Boyce
American convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
Ronald Pelton
former NSA analyst
Robert Lee Johnson
American spy for the Soviet Union (1922–1972)
Jack Soble
Lithuanian spy for the Soviet Union
Earl Edwin Pitts
FBI agent who spied for Soviet Union intelligence services